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Peter Diamandis and his Moonshot Mates, among them Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross, on technology, science and ambitious ideas about the future.
Peter Diamandis cited a fall from $2.36 to $0.38 per robot subtask between July and September and projected near-zero cost within a year. RoboCurve's published test instead compares two models at $1.14 and $0.90 per attempt.
Peter Diamandis described a Tesla Roadster demo in which suction fans held the car upside down on a ramp. A presentation clip he played described compressed-air thrusters borrowed from SpaceX for its hops. His Moonshots guest Salim Ismail doubted any insurer would cover it and said regulators always lag new technology.
On Moonshots, Peter Diamandis showed a speech implant from his portfolio company Paradromics and described Sabi's planned brain-reading cap. Dave Blundin argued that AI agents may reverse what such interfaces are for.
Atomic Machines says its Matter Compiler builds tiny devices from code, starting with a fast power relay. On Moonshots, the hosts argued over how self-copying factories might follow. Those are their forecasts; none has been shown.
Dave Blundin said today's AI forgets mistreatment like a goldfish once its context is flushed. On Moonshots, Alex Wissner-Gross countered that tools like Claude Code already save notes to files, so "I wouldn't count on it."
Alexander Wissner-Gross forecast that virtual-cell AI will propose small-molecule cures for the top 5,000 diseases within two to three years. He said regulatory approval would be a harder, policy-dependent question.
Computer scientist Alex Wissner-Gross argued that AI solving math at scale, not quantum computing, is the real threat to encryption, though he named no broken system. Salim Ismail countered that AI can also build stronger cryptography.
Meta released Muse Wonder, a model built to remember users over time, on October 12. On Moonshots, Alex Wissner-Gross said it trails the frontier once cost counts; Salim Ismail said knowing users best may decide the next big AI contest.
Anthropic's policy, effective November 12, bans sustained, purposeless cruelty to Claude but allows frustration and testing, citing uncertainty about Claude's moral status. Moonshots hosts debated whether AI training can cause suffering.
OpenAI posted hundreds of AI-produced math manuscripts on October 6 and withdrew three a day later. A mathematicians' group objected; on Moonshots, Alex Wissner-Gross argued math is just the first field AI will bulk-solve.
After the 2026 medicine Nobel for optogenetics, Moonshots panelists argued the prizes lag AI-era science. Alexander Wissner-Gross said he once nudged Ed Boyden toward the field after reading Vernor Vinge.
Epoch AI estimates that AI memory shipped through 2027 could run 30–170 million frontier agents at once if fully devoted to them. That matches workers' hours, not their output. On Moonshots, Dave Blundin called memory AI's bottleneck.
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